Rosa Parks Day

On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused
to obey bus driver to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.
Her action was not the first of its kind: Irene Morgan, in 1946, and Sarah
Louise Keys, in 1955, had won rulings before the U.S. Supreme Court and
the Interstate Commerce Commission respectively in the area of interstate
bus travel. Nine months before Parks refused to give up her seat, 15-year-old
Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on the same bus system.